while it may be language you hear regularly ive certainly not heard nigger used and meant more than once or twice in a decade ive no doubt there are subcultures where its thrown around liberally and you might expect a journalist to be less affected but i could see why shed be genuinely shocked weve got battling narratives here dont we is open racist abuse so common in the uk that a black woman should be used to being called a nigger and not shocked by it or is her description of her experiences a valid representation of uk race relations in that we mostly dont spit racial epithets in each others faces on the regular